Tom,
I have about 25 wheels sitting around and all of them are the off (foam)
white. Bought my Alpine V new, black car, wheels were white under the nave
plates and hubcaps.
I just took a look a some of my collection of factory brochures and saw a
couple of early cars, Series II red with red wheels! Also a Series II white
with white wheels. Of course a lot of things shown in the airbrushed factory
literature is not true. But, one might assume from these sales flyers that
early cars may have come with matching body color wheels and it seems that
all my flyers for the Series IV-V only show the off white.
Also a GT might have come with matching wheels as they did on thier hardtops,
whereas the roadster hardtops were either black or white unless you ordered
it in a matching color from the factory.
Hope this helps,
Curt
Classic Sunbeam
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